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18892086Washington DC: The Brodix Publishing Co. 1889. Wraps. Oversized pink paper wrappers staple bound. Very good. 12 pages. 42 x 28 cm. This charming periodical features six sheets of cooking instructions detailing: Fish-Soup; Meat; Sauces-salads; Vegetables; Pastry; Sweets and Preserves; and How to Make Bread. The binding style and large type set likely indicates that this publication was meant for display in the kitchen. The inside cover purports the benefits of a healthy diet especially focused on wheat and grain's positive effects on the brain. The following pages outline recipes and instructions for proper food preparation taking care to mention the repercussions of poorly tended food ranging from indigestion from unchopped capers to dangers of under or overcooked vegetables. The final page includes helpful hints for food shopping health and safety suggestions as well as a treatise on the proper diet for invalids. <br />The Home Magazine a monthly illustrated periodical ran from 1888 to 1908 serving as a guide to social domestic and business life. Mrs. John A Logan served as editor for the Home Magazine following the death of her husband a Civil War general and statesman John A. Logan. Born Mary Simmerson Cunningham an educated woman from Missouri she played an active role in her husband's political life accompanying him on campaigns and organizing volunteers. Mary became a prominent figure in Washington society in her own right often meeting with Adele Douglas wife of Senator Stephen A. Douglas and Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant to discuss political happenings and social issues. Mary was a celebrated American writer and editor authoring two books and contributing to several publications including William Randolph Hearst's monthly syndicate Cosmopolitan. She was committed to social causes dedicating herself to the women's suffrage movement and was an early supporter of the American Red Cross. Weak fold across cover wear to edges and small paper loss to inside pages not effecting text. <br/><br/> The Brodix Publishing Co. paperback books
200120325Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0811704998 . First printing. Fine in a near fine small strip of abrasion at base of front panel dust jacket. . Stackpole Books hardcover books
200120324Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0811704998 . First printing. Fine in a near fine light rubbing to front panel dust jacket. . Stackpole Books hardcover books
1897007336Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1897. Two Volumes in original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edges gilt Very Good light wear to cloth at spine ends prior owner name and date front end pages both 1/2" tear top edge front gutter Vol. 1. Contents are clean tight and unmarked. American Statesmen series edited by John T. Morse Jr. . Later Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1838005286London: John Chidley 1838. Second Edition with Additions Revised and Corrected. Handsomely bound in later blue cloth gilt titles marbled edges. All 3 volumes are Very Good or better frontispiece portrait Vol. 1 has been repaired cloth a bit sunned at spines light foxing to end pages. "Containing among a variety of interesting pieces a great part of the correspondence of Elizabeth and her Ministers with George Sixth Earl of Shrewsbury during the fifteen years in which Mary Queen of Scots remained in his custody." . Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Chidley Hardcover books
1849008307London: Henry G. Bohn 1849. Eight volumes bound in contemporary full calf backs ornately gilt marbled end papers and edges. The small period bookplate of John R. Gardner Ferry Hill RI to paste downs. Very Good 1" chip at head of spine of Vol. I top corner front marbled end page Vol. I creased and separating. Moderate scattered toning throughout the set mostly at end papers. Calf with moderate rubbing and light soiling. Features 30 engraved portraits each volume for a total of 240. Additional postage will be required for priority and international mail- please inquire. . First Edition in Eight Volumes . Full Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover books
190121723Boston: Ginn & Company 1901. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Radcliffe College Monographs No. 11. 255 pp in original printed wrappers. Paper covering spine mostly gone leaving binding a bit tender. Chipping at edges of covers. Text clean. As described in the preface "the aims of this investigation have been to trace the early development of anti-slavery sentiment under the influence of religious and ethical principles and of political theories; to indicate its practical outcome on the revolutionary period and the years immediately following; to discover the relation of early anti-slavery to that which culminated in universal emancipation and to determine whether the anti-slavery movement may be regarded as a continuous growth. Ginn & Company unknown books
192644099New York: Stevens & Wood Incorporated 1926. 1st Edition. Leather binding with title gilt stamped to front cover. Brown marbled paper eps. Edgewear. Minor chipping at spine ends. Very Good. 83 numbered leaves. Typed text recto only on onionskin paper with red rule border. Leaves 71 through 83 with 26 b/w captioned photographs 2 per leaf on recto. Of the 26 photographs 3 show rolling stock e.g. 'Class "B" Passenger Car No. 310' with the remainder showing divers buildings etc e.g. 'Passenger Station - Village of Westfield' & 'Signal Tower at Pennsylvania R.R. Crossing in Mayville'. 11" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>This report 1 volume of 3 submitted on March 10 1926 in New York by Stevens & Wood to George L. Maltby General Manager of the Jamestown Westfield & Northwestern Railroad Company is an inventory and appraisal of the property of the railroad including: 1 the electric railway line located in the County of Chautauqua NY owned and operated by the railroad including roadways tracts paving bridges culverts fences signs signals telephone lines poles and fixtures distribution and transmission system; 2 railroad lines located in Chautauqua County NY known as the Chautauqua and Falconer Branches of the railroad which have not been electrified and have been abandoned including roadways tracks bridges and culverts; 3 cars and their electrical equipment; 4 substation buildings and equipment in Westfield and Mayfield; 5 feeder lines interconnecting the distribution system along the right of way of the railroad with the Chautauqua Traction Company’s substation at Stow and in Mayville; 6 all stations waiting rooms and miscellaneous buildings and structures identified as the property of the railroad; 7 Midway Park owned by the railway company. Not present are Volumes II & III with "inventory summaries showing quantities prices and extensions grouped according to Tax Districts and by accounts and the Cost References." An excellent source of New York local history for the mid-1920s. Stevens & Wood, Incorporated hardcover books
1950008260New York: The Geographical Press Columbia University 1950. SCARCE. 8 pp 6 with text and 2 page map printed verso pages 1 and 8 19" h x 12" w closed map 19" h x 24" w open. Near Fine centerfold as issued prior owner name top edge front page light foxing bottom margin front page with text. Scale 1/9000000 or about 150 miles to 1 inch. . 18th Printing. Map. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 19" h x 24 " W. The Geographical Press, Columbia University Paperback books
19332769New York: Macmillan 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. viii 334 pp illustrations with bibliography index. Mild spine slant light wear to edges with lightly bumped corners bookplate on front pastedown; text clean binding tight. No dust jacket. History of relations between Russia and Asia primarily from the Russian perspective with chapters on the conquest of Siberia Peter the Great Catherine the Great "the Near and Middle East up to the Crimean War" annexation of the Amur region the conquest of central Asia the Russo-Japanese War World War I and more. Macmillan hardcover books
1937006724London: Lloyds Bank Limited 1937. RARE In addition to the Home Reports contains the article "The Economic Situation and Outlook of Czecho-Slovakia" by Dr. Gerhard Schacher along with a one page TLS dated Oct. 26th 1937 from Schacher to an American professor discussing his upcoming lecture tour in the US. Very Good wrappers toned light foxing. Paginated 554-616. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lloyds Bank Limited Paperback books
18510291121851. Manuscript. Very Good. folio 2 pages on four page bi-folium old colds and creases remains of wafer postal markings and some soiling on integral address leaf else in very good clean legible condition. Lloyd in this letter writes his uncle asking for funds and is unable to find other employment. Lloyd had apparently been working for Rufus W. Bailey the American Colonization Society Agent in Virginia. Lloyd writes: "I hardly know how to begin writing but I am situated so that I cannot move at all. I have tried to get a situation here in place of the place but unsuccessfully and all because I am not a good writer & Bookkeeper. I feel very anxious indeed to get back to New York but Mr. Baily has no money to pay my expenses back and can not let me have it for 6 or 8 weeks. He is about sending a Ship of Emigrants to Liberia and is getting them down the Vally sic as fast as possible but they will not be ready to sail before October 1st. He then expects to have $ 1000 at last and more if he sends over 100 emigrants. He is obliged to pay all their expenses until they go and told me yesterday he could not possibly let me have a dollar until his ship has sailed." During the Liberian emigrant voyage discussed in this letter which sailed November 1 1851 on the Morgan Dix approximately 37 of the 149 passengers died on board ship or during the acclimation period in Africa. <br /> books
18282101550D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent 1828. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Spines repaired with minimal loss from spine feet and joints. Volume II: rear board broken away from hinge. 1828 Hard Cover. 360; 342 2 pp. Brown cloth paper spine labels. 8vo. An English translation of a portion of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita Libri Books from the Foundation of the City. The full work encompassed the history of Rome from the earliest legends through the reign of Augustus. This portion of the work focuses mainly on the Punic Wars which pitted the Romans against the Carthaginians. D.A. Talboys and J. Vincent hardcover books
1629045230Dilingen: Caspari Sutoris Kaspar Sutor 1629. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled but sound with the remains of leather ties. Old signature to title mild persistent foxing some wormholes in the right margins just touching a few letters mostly clean. A nice little Jesuit edition of Livy. 2646pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045230. <br/><br/> Caspari Sutoris (Kaspar Sutor) hardcover books
200030316Edinburgh: Birlinn. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 1841580023 . First edition paperback. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Birlinn paperback books
181321533Concord NH: Daniel Cooledge 1813. Hardcover. Very good. Third edition first published 1809. 16mo 143 pp with wonderful wood-engraved sheep vignette on title page. Contemporary binding of calf-backed marbled boards with black spine label. Bookplate of Catholic priest and book collector Joseph M. Gleason on front pastedown. Five-digit number ink-stamped on verso of title page and some other faint markings on the same page suggest this may once have been in a library but there are no other indications. Some scuffing to the spine but overall quite a nice copy with tight binding and minimal foxing. Livingston is best known as a politician he represented New York in the Continental Congress became Congress's first secretary of foreign affairs and then minister plenipotentiary to France under Jefferson but he "maintained a lifelong involvement in agricultural experimentation and other amateur though serious "projecting" applying his innovations in farming and Merino sheep culture to his extensive acreage. Known throughout the Anglo-American world for his projects in 1793 Livingston founded with others the New York Society for the Promotion of Agriculture Manufactures and the Useful Arts" ANB. Daniel Cooledge hardcover books
16792128667Amstelodami Amsterdam: Apud Danielem Elsevirium 1679. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First two volumes only of three volume set comprising books I-X and XXI-XXX XI-XX are lost. These volumes cover the following though parts are absent due to some portions being lost: The founding of Rome including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus; the period of the kings and the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls; The subjugation of Italy the Samnite Wars before the conflict with Carthage; The Punic Wars. The third volume discussing the Macedonian and other eastern wars down to 167 B.C. is not included. Rear joint of first volume splitting front joint of second volume just beginning to along top edge boards a bit soiled and slightly bowed minor ink marginalia owner name excised from front flyleaf of first volume. 1679 Hard Cover. xliv 922 72 62; 973 60 58 pp. 8vo. Bound in vellum. Engraved frontispiece and title page. Latin text two-column format. The Roman history of Titus Livius often referred to as Livy edited by J.F. Gronovius with extensive footnotes and an enormous index following the text of each volume with appendices by the Italian humanist Carolus Sigonius which continue the chronologies of Livy through the year 751 A.D. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Danielem Elsevirium hardcover books
197928145New York: Basic Books Inc 1979. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket. NF poi to ffep/NF. xv 1 429 1 pp including Index. 8vo. <br/><br/> Basic Books, Inc hardcover books
1585046650Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1585. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. 3 volumes bound in 1 in old full calf 1585 1585 and 1588; a few dents at the edges wear to corners quite sound overall old catalog entry pasted to endpaper. The first two titles continuously paginated. Minor staining here and there paper repair in one margin trimmed a bit close at the top edge just touching page numbers and running title occasionally. 6 plates 3 folding in Amphitheatro/Amphitheatris. One folding plate missing the third section one with a repaired tear at the fold. 14 plates 12 of them folding in Saturnalium; plates lettered A-M and two large unlettered plates. Some wear and soiling to plates generally at the edges a few of the larger plates creased in spots but very good overall. 105 3pp; 8 175pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046650. Christopher Plantin hardcover books
1933S9171London:: British Museum 1933 1936. 1933. Second edition. Two volumes. 4to. xi 245 68; 59 pp. Frontis. index. Gilt-stamped olive cloth. Fine. appendix: Printed wrappers; edges slightly torn corner fold on back cover. Very good. British Museum, 1933, 1936. hardcover books
175147454Edinburgh: Printed by the Assigns of Robert Freebair His Majesty's Printer 1751. 1st Edition Goldsmith 8609. Brown quarter calf binding over period marbled paper boards. Average binding wear. Period ink annotation to front paste-down: "22 Octb 1751" Binding offset to eps. A VG copy. 6 157 1 blank pp. Printed glosses. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>A comprehensive gathering of 15 Acts of Parliament all affecting the linen industry from ca. 1713 to 1751. With excellent indexes and subject cross-references. Printed by the Assigns of Robert Freebair His Majesty's Printer hardcover books
172748529London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1727. 1st Edition European Americana 727/195; Goldsmith 6505. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Hint of age-toning. A VG copy. 4 31 5 pp. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 6-3/4" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane unknown books
172748366London: Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane 1727. 1st Edition Goldsmith . Brown quarter calf binding over period marbled paper boards. Average binding wear. Period ink annotation to front paste-down: "22 Oct 1751" Binding offset to eps. A VG copy. 6 157 1 blank pp. Printed glosses. 8vo. 8-1/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>A comprehensive gathering of 15 Acts of Parliament all affecting the linen industry from ca. 1713 to 1751. With excellent indexes and subject cross-references. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane hardcover books
1990195605Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1990. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. No pencil or ink markings in text. ; Not an Ex-Library Copy. Very Good binding / no dust jacket. Princeton University Press unknown books
196814334Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 1968. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 224 pp with index illustrations bibliography of Linderman's writings. A tightly bound unmarked copy in a clean dust jacket with minimal wear protected by a mylar cover. Linderman recounts his life in Montana as a trapper assayer newspaper publisher and legislator. He also writes "of his Indian friends of ways in which he was able to help them and of obtaining their legends and myths." Covers his life up to 1930. University of Nebraska Press hardcover books
